...he says, is little short of a denial of the resurrection. This variety of opinion proves, however, that the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments is a fundamental topic of Rabbinical theology, and that there is therefore a wide difference between this...

...vulgar, but of those who were most wise, learned, and eloquent. 9. It is only by a divine revelation that the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments is, to us, made certain. We admit that human reason can adduce many strong and powerful arguments for its...

...between these two lares be certainly known, but from the evidence of this contested truth, that tfte doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments is not to be found in the Mosaic dispensation ? So close a dependence have all these capital principles on one another. 2....

...combat a greater monster in morals, before we can proceed. As the great foundation of our proposition, that the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments is necessary to civil society, is this, that religion is necessary to civil society; so the foundation...

...shaft, striking" upon this shield of Ajax, is not only repelled, hut retorted upon the assailants. That the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments, is no less useful to the practical legislator than to the philosophic theist, is abundantly shewn by Warburton,...

...he says, is little short of a denial of the resurrection. This variety of opinion proves, however, that the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments is a fundamental topic of Rabbinical theology, and that there is, therefore, a wide difference between...

...your Lordship will be so good to observe, that the point to be proved in my defence of Moses, is not that the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments is true ; (that I take for granted, or leave for others to prove ;) but that it is so useful that no lawgiver,...

...former part of this subject, I so nearly agreed. The subject of his fifth book* is to prove, That tfte doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments is not to be found in, and did not take part of, t/ie Mosaic dispensation. One part of this proposition, that a future retribution...

...and the most wise and learned nations of antiquity universally believed, what is undoubtedly true, that the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments is necessary to the well-being of a civil society, unless it be supported by an extraordinary providence,...

...DOCTRINE WAS OF SUCH USE TO CIVIL SOCIETY. The next Book begins with the proof of the third ; namely, 3. THAT THE DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE STATE OF REWARDS...PUNISHMENTS, is NOT TO BE FOUND IN, NOR DID MAKE PART OP, THE MOSAIC DISPENSATION. Hitherto we have been forced to move slowly, to feel for our way in the...